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This diploma thesis deals with the influence of the totalitarian regime on musical production in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and 1989. The aim is to explore various ways which the communist regime used to regulate or prevent the propagation of selected musical genres. The power of the totalitarian regime is shown in specific cases, such as censorship, preventing concerts, physical attacts during performances, arrests, artificial processes, media influence, nationwide actions against musicians or music bands, state institutions, etc. The work shoes how the communist regime avoided accepting any independent behavior in the society. At the same time, there are analyzed both articles in the media and state security reports, etc., and some texts reflecting political events in the particular period and current professional work on this topic. KEYWORDS Normalization, Unofficial Musical Genres, Underground, Punk, Rock'n'roll, Repression, Unfreedom

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The farm to school movement is partially supported by unofficial actors in the policymaking process who promote legislation to encourage activities such as local procurement, school gardening, and agricultural education. However, farm to school legislation can vary in its level of effectiveness and implementation throughout the United States. Research shows that Virginia has a low level of support and advocacy for farm to school activities when compared to other states. Unofficial actors, such as advocates, producers, and school nutrition professionals are uniquely qualified to identify challenges, opportunities, and suggestions on improving the policymaking process, due to their experiences with farm to school. This study addressed a gap in scholarly literature as there is limited research on the role that unofficial actors play in promoting farm to school during the legislative process. In this qualitative, case-study, the Stages Heuristic Model was used as a theoretical framework to explore unofficial actors' experiences as they participate in the agenda-setting and policy formulation stages of policy cycle in the Northern Virginia Region. The findings uncovered experiences that unofficial actors believed either prevented or made their engagement in policymaking more challenging. Opportunities and successes during these stages of advocacy were also examined. Further, participants provided suggestions to all policymaking actors to improve the process in the future. Key findings revealed the importance of themes such as collaboration, connectedness, and relationship building in the policymaking process. Additionally, unofficial actors generally found success in the "small wins'' of advocacy, such as increasing farm to school awareness, as opposed to more extensive legislative outcomes. / The farm to school movement is partially supported by active citizens in the policymaking process who promote legislation to encourage activities such as purchasing local foods, school gardening, and agricultural education. However, farm to school legislation can vary in its level of effectiveness and implementation throughout the United States. Research shows that Virginia has a low level of political advocacy for farm to school activities when compared to other states. Individuals such as advocates, farmers, and school nutrition professionals are uniquely qualified to identify challenges, opportunities, and suggestions on improving the policymaking process, due to their experiences with farm to school. This study addressed a gap in the academic community as there is limited research on the role these individuals play in promoting farm to school during the legislative process. In this study, a policymaking model was used as a foundation to explore individuals' experiences as they participate in the farm to school legislative process in the Northern Virginia Region. The findings uncovered experiences that respondents believed either prevented or made their engagement in policymaking more challenging. Opportunities and successes during these stages were also examined. Further, respondents provided suggestions to all policymakers for improving the process in the future. Key findings revealed the importance of collaboration, connectedness, and relationship building in the policymaking process. Additionally, respondents generally found success in "small wins," such as increasing farm to school awareness, as opposed to more extensive legislative outcomes.

The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, 1942-2004 are located in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. They contain published and unpublished works along with photographs, correspondence, artwork, notes, interviews, etc. As a woman of color who is interested in issues of social justice, disrupting dominant ideological binaries, and intersections of race, class, and gender, Anzaldúa has much to offer the field of rhetoric and communication studies. The purpose of the study is to derive Anzaldúa’s theory of social change. As a woman of color, Anzaldúa simultaneously aligns and differentiates herself from the Chicano movement and the feminist movement. Citing her, and other Chicana feminists concerns, she uses a theory of the B/borderlands as a generative theory from which she theorizes using nepantla and images. Her theory of social change is implicit and available to rhetors upon an examination of the official and unofficial texts available in her archive. Diana Taylor’s concepts of the archive (official texts) and the repertoire (unofficial performances and iterations) are used to examine Anzaldúa’s archival collection. The artifacts included an examination of Anzaldúa’s birth certificate and corrections compared with a short story “Her Name Never Got Called.” In addition a documentary Altar is examined and compared with conversations that led to its creation. An analysis of Anzaldúa’s archive suggests that there is an oscillation between the official archives and the unofficial performances. These movements reveal Anzaldúa’s favor for images as instrumental in her theory-making process; they reveal her imagistic theory of social change. Applying a theory of discourse from the borderlands that emerges out of the archive of Anzaldúa will make rhetoricians better equipped to study texts that speak back to dominant discourses and refuse oppressive binaries. / text

This thesis deals with the six Czech regional institutions, which aimed at unofficial art during 1980s, thereby created an alternative to Prague's galleries, which were refusing such type of an art. Among them belongs Galerie 55 (Gallery 55) in Kladno, Městské kulturní středisko (Municipal culture centre) in Dobříš, Letohrádek (Summer residence) Ostrov nad Ohří, Galerie ve věži (Gallery in the tower) in Mělník, Alšova jihočeská galerie (Aleš's South Bohemian gallery) in Hluboká nad Vltavou along with Malá scéna Domu kultury (Culture centre's Small scene) in České Budějovice and, as the only private gallery, Galerie H (Gallery H) in Kostelec nad Černými lesy. Based on period documents and memorial texts, this thesis characterize each and every art space, the groups of people who were gathering around them, the exhibition program and the most important exhibitions. It introduces these "galleries" to the period cultural-politics context and to relations with other galleries and important exhibitions of the Czech unofficial art during the eighties.

Étude théorique sur les institutions de la tutelle officieuse et de l'adoption sous l'application du Code civil de 1804. C'est une étude théorique car la tutelle officieuse n'a pas connue de nombreuses pratiques. Au travers de l'institution de l'adoption, il est analysé et supposé les applications théoriques de l'institution de la tutelle officieuse. Cette étude est à la fois historique et théorique, les liens de filiation fictive y sont analysés afin de permettre une meilleure compréhension des mécanismes d'adoption et d'attachement d'un mineur à l'apparition de l'adoption sous l'application du Code civil de 1804. / Theoretical study on the institutions of the unofficial supervision(guardianship) and the adoption under the application of the Civil code of 1804. It is a theoretical study because the unofficial supervision(guardianship) did not know of numerous practices. Through the institution of the adoption, are analyzed and supposed the theoretical applications of the institution of the unofficial supervision(guardianship). This study is historic and theoretical at once(at the same time), the links of fictitious filiation are analyzed there to allow a better understanding of the mechanisms of adoption and attachment of a minor(miner) the appearance of the adoption under the application of the Civil code of 1804.

Der Autor gehört zu den produktivsten und kreativsten Historikern der jüngeren Generation (Jg. 1967) von DDR-Forschern. Nach Standardwerken zur Hochschulpolitik der SED, zur Geschichtswissenschaft der DDR, zum Volksaufstand von 1953 und zur Friedlichen Revolution legt der Projektleiter der Abteilung Bildung und Forschung der Stasi-Unterlagenbehörde nun eine Geschichte der Staatssicherheit vor. Gerade auf Grund seiner beruflichen Stellung und Erfahrung erscheint Kowalczuk zweifellos besonders geeignet, um die kaum noch zu überblickende Flut an Spezialliteratur zur Stasi zu systematisieren und in ein eigenes Forschungskonzept zu integrieren.

This master's degree thesis, adhering to the genre of contemporary history studies, depicts the lifestory of Ivan M. Havel. Theoretically it is grounded in personalism, especially regarding to works of Ch. Mounier and M. Scheler and establishes as the primary point of reference the phenomena of individual personality, uniquely embedded into the surrounding social world. From this basic tenet the explanation is built towards the understanding of general categories, using the contexts and traditions, in which the personality had been engulfed. This thesis makes use of both oral history method and archival sources and documents study. Ivan M. Havel can be understood within enduring context of his family's intellectual, civic, political and entrepreneurial tradition, where several specific phenomena stand out. First the non-partisan spirituality, second the emphasis, laid of socially responsible conduct of business; third the stress, laid on achieving broad education, going beyond established domains and disciplines and fourth the sociability, spanning over all of these attributes. Ivan M. Havel's biography is therefore traced mainly within the period up to the 1989 year, since the childhood, deeply influenced by his grandfather H. Vavrečka, through his coming of age, spent close to the Šestatřicátníci literary...

<p>This thesis empirically investigates two distinct themes in public economics: tax policy and the economics of the charitable sector. The first chapter of the thesis examines the first theme of tax policy and focuses on how a change in the income tax affects labour market behaviour in Russia. The second theme of the economics of the charitable sector is explored in the final two chapters of the thesis. These chapters analyze the role of Canadian foundations in the provision of charitable goods.</p> <p>The first chapter examines the effect of Russia's flat tax reform on two employment dimensions: primary vs. secondary and official vs. unofficial. The chapter shows that individuals respond to lower taxes by devoting less time to primary and secondary employment. Official and unofficial employment, however, remain unaffected by the flat tax reform.</p> <p>The next two chapters depart from tax policy and study the role of foundations in the Canadian charitable sector. The second chapter of the thesis provides new evidence on the size-based operation of foundations and their financial structure in Canada. A third of foundations operating in Canada are quite small, with assets of less than $25,000. The remaining foundations can be classified as medium (with assets more than $25,000 and never more than one million dollars in a given year) or large (with assets of one million dollars in at least one year). Over the last 20 years, there are only small differences in the growth and use of funding between public and private medium-size foundations. For the large-scale foundations, we observe distinct differences in the expenditures of private and public foundations. Private foundations distribute more of their expenditures to other charities whereas public foundations devote more of their expenditures to internal activities.</p> <p>The final chapter of the thesis explores the impact of foundation grants to charities on the private donations received by these charities. Theoretically, foundation grants have two competing effects on private donations: a negative crowd-out effect and a positive information effect. An overall positive effect prevails only if the positive effect of signaling information about charity quality outweighs the negative crowd-out effect. With data on Canadian social welfare and community charities matched to their specific foundation donors, this chapter empirically examines the overall effect and finds that an additional dollar of foundation grants to Canadian charities crowds-in private giving to these organizations on average by 3.70 dollars.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)